Important District Transportation News: BUS ROUTES HAVE CHANGED

Read this information if you are anticipating that your child will ride the bus to and/or from school this year. Letters were mailed last week regarding the new routes. If you have not received a letter regarding your child's new bus route or talked to the transportation department about your route, please contact the Transportation Department at 515-989-5315 or 515-989-5301 by Friday, August 17.

Other important busing information:

Pay-to-ride transportation within the Carlisle city limits will be billed at the beginning of the quarter. A single student fee is $90/quarter and a family is $150/quarter. Families have until the end of the quarter to pay the fee.

District will be using Route Numbers instead of bus numbers. Students will look for a sign to the left of the bus doors for the route number.

All students should arrive at their bus stops no less than 5 minutes before their scheduled times and buses may arrive up to 5 minutes after their scheduled time. Inclement weather does affect bus schedules, and therefore the arrival times may vary.

Once the school year has started and you need to make changes to transportation, it will be a 72-hour implementation period. Changes in transportation will not be accepted unless approved by the Transportation

Department (515) 989-5301.

Parents/Guardians must submit requests for one-day route changes to school offices no less than 24-hours prior to date.